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  • January 2025
  • Teaching Note

Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service

By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Up Your Time Affluence

here, Whillans offers straightforward strategies for gaining control over that most precious asset of all. Beware of time confetti. Our near-constant connection to technology... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell appointed Wallace Brett Donham the Dean of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • June 2025
  • Article

Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

By: Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas
Online labor platforms for short-term, remote work have many more job seekers than available jobs. Despite their relative abundance, workers capture a substantial share of the surplus from transactions. We draw this conclusion from demand estimates that imply workers'... View Details
Keywords: Gig Economy; Knowledge Workers; Online Platforms; Job Search; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wages; Demand and Consumers
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

Controlling for these effects and other determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have relatively higher subsequent media allegations of corruption. They also report higher future sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

it's all about timing; it's all about wit and hard work; it's neither business disaster nor business opportunity BUT just plain business; it's the same ol' stories that span centuries of commerce."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

context in which they operate; to determine which CSR initiatives they should address; and to find the most effective ways of doing so. Perceiving social responsibility as an opportunity rather than as damage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Behavioral Household Finance

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household financial behavior, emphasizing empirical regularities that are inconsistent with the standard classical economic model and discussing extensions of the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Global Range; Household; Behavior; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Design; Welfare
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  • April 2010 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

California's Budget Crises, Tax Reform, and Domestic and International Tax Competition

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Jacob Kuipers
How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting internal policy priorities including redistribution? In 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly declared fiscal emergencies as California's state budget... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Economy; Globalization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Taxation; Competition; California
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  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

status, we find that groups benefited—up to a point—from having high status members, controlling for individual performance. With higher proportions of individual stars, however, the marginal benefit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

generate a control group of non-herbal patents that have similar medicinal purposes as our herbal patents through textual matching. Using this framework, we estimate a triple differences equation and find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

material, as well as less-tangible benefits. What is the balancing act needed to sustain gray zones? A: Using the above example of paramedics, what is gained and lost? Obviously, some level of organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

controlling for other, previously identified effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be fully explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Feedback

primary command and control communication system. —Joe Lanza (AMP 103, 1988) via bulletin@hbs.edu I don’t know if it’s chutzpah or ignorance regarding the history of and current situation in Afghanistan or... View Details
Keywords: feedback